U.N. panel bolsters climate asylum seekers
Ioane Teitiota lost his case against deportation, but in its ruling the U.N. Human Rights Committee said people fleeing climate change may claim asylum.
Internal Displacement Monitoring Center
The Internal Displacement Monitoring Center (IDMC) is a Norwegian-based non-governmental organization. It is the leading source of data and analysis on internal displacement worldwide, tracking the numbers of people displaced within their own countries by conflict, violence, disasters, and development projects. Its work provides an evidence base for humanitarian response and policy.
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A record 41 million people are uprooted in their own nations
Disasters and conflicts drove nations atop a list of places adding to the 28 million people newly displaced at home.
Ethiopia tops list of newly uprooted people in latest global assessment
New ethnic clashes in the south of the country and violence along a border region displaced more than 1 million people.